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Limited copies of Ed 3 "Normal" remain from first printing

2019-09-13T15:36:00-04:00

We have a very limited number of copies remaining from our first print of the third issue of Ed, Archinect's print periodical. To secure a copy before we run out, orders should be made soon.

This latest issue features a diverse range of contributions by significant architectural thinkers and practitioners that tackle questions surrounding the norms of the discipline and its normative functions. The issue aims to denormalize and denaturalize what we take for givens in the discipline and profession: primarily, its institutionalized social and labor relations, and their misogynistic, racist, corrupt, and oppressive character. At the same time, it looks at the ways in which architecture presumes—and, in turn, produces—a normative subject with a normative body. And it imagines alternatives through a series of contemporary case studies.

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Call for Submissions now open for 'Ed' #3: Normal!

2018-06-07T14:02:00-04:00

Architecture isn’t normal. We take for a given that architecture has to operate the way it already does — but it doesn’t. What appears as natural is in fact constructed, and has mutated dramatically through time. “Architecture,” that is, refers not just to the practice of building but also to a set of institutionalized social and labor relations, which are often misogynistic, racist, corrupt, and oppressive. For far too long, we’ve accepted workplaces where women are mistreated, harassed, assaulted. We’ve accepted the exclusion of people of color from our ranks and as our clients. We’ve accepted exploitation of workers and cyclical systems of abuse. We’ve accepted as the ideal of our profession an image of the architect—and the client—that is white, that is cis male, that is straight, that is able bodied, that is rich. We have to, urgently, denormalize these norms of the architectural profession and discipline.

While architecture may not be normal, it does normalize. It transforms c...